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BOONSBORO - Smithsburg track coach Buddy Orndorff does not like to overemphasize the beginning of the regular season. He just wants the athletes on his team to gradually prepare themselves for the big post-season meets at the end of the spring. However, he will gladly accept any extra success that comes along the way. Smithsburg got some of that extra success on Saturday when it swept both the boys and the girls team championships at the Chuck Zonis Invitational. North Hagerstown was the host school, but the track meet was moved to Boonsboro because of unsuitable conditions at North.

by Joe Crocetta / staff photographer see the enlargement WILLIAMSPORT - All Hunter Cross needed on the back of his Superman warmup shirt was the number 40. That's how many points Cross, a North Hagerstown High senior, scored in the Washington County Track and Field Championships on Monday at Williamsport High. --cont. from front page-- His four wins at 10 points each- in the long and triple jumps and high and intermediate hurdles - helped propel the North boys to the county title for the second straight year.

andrewm@herald-mail.com CATONSVILLE, Md. - Blood, sweat and tears. Handoffs, heaves and cheers. Area athletes did it all Saturday at the Maryland Track & Field State Championships at University of Maryland-Baltimore County, returning home with 15 individual gold medals, two relay wins and a pair of team championships. Here's the skinny on the phat day of performances: The Middletown boys jumped out to huge lead in the Class 2A team standings on Thursday, racking up 40 points on four wins, and packed in enough other place-winnings Saturday to cruise to their 11th state title and first since 2001 with 78 points.

BRUNSWICK, Md. - There's nothing easy-going about the track and field season, now that it's May. "Before, practice was more relaxed," Smithsburg senior Jamal Campbell said. "But now the coaches are pushing us harder. " It showed Friday at the MVAL Antietam championships. In a battle of last year's top two boys teams in Maryland Class 1A, defending state champion Smithsburg got the best of Brunswick again. The Leopards won with 153 points, the host Railroaders were second with 120 and Williamsport took third with 91 in the eight-team field.

PREP BASEBALL Billy Gross pitched five solid innings and added three hits and two RBI at the plate to help Frederick hold off North Hagerstown 6-5 in MVAL nonconference action on Thursday. Gross scattered four hits, struck out seven and walked one for Frederick (1-0), which jumped out to a 5-0 lead after the second inning. Mike Herald sparked the Cadets with a bases-loaded triple in the first. Hubs reliever Kent Worthington entered in the second and retired 14 straight Cadets - eight on strikeouts - before surrendering a run in the seventh that put Frederick ahead, 6-1. North (1-1)

PREP LACROSSE The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association held the tournament draws for boys and girls lacrosse on Monday. First-round schedules are to be played Thursday, according to the MPSSAA. Game times for local teams are still to be determined. In Class 2A/1A West, Smithsburg plays host to Rockville on the boys side, while the Smithsburg girls travel to Glenelg. In Class 3A/2A West, South Hagerstown will likely host a boys/girls doubleheader, with the boys playing Kennedy and the girls squaring off against Tuscarora.

PREP TRACK SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - Chambersburg junior Kylee Schuler lowered the Tri-State 3,200-meter record, while Waynesboro junior Nick Kipe grabbed gold in the triple jump Friday during the first day of the PIAA District 3 Track & Field Championships at Shippensburg University. Schuler - who earlier this season became the first area girl to ever break 11 minutes in the 3,200 with her 10:58.63 win at the Stan Morgan Invitational - went 10:46.95 to place second in Class AAA. Hershey's Angie Saterstad topped the field in 10:43.

HANCOCK - McConnellsburg made it a clean sweep on Wednesday. McConnellsburg won both the boys and the girls team championships in the 17th Annual Tri-State Track and Field Invitational at Hancock High School. --cont. from front page-- McConnellsburg used everyone it had to edge Chestnut Ridge, 117-106, for the boys title. "It was the depth again," McConnellsburg boys coach Don Gordon said. "We only won three events. It was the people that finished from second to fourth in several different events that won it for us. I was very impressed with how they came on at the end, because we were down by 20 points after six events to a very strong Chestnut Ridge team.